“There is an Eastern fable, told long ago, of a traveller overtaken on a plain by an enraged beast. Escaping from the beast he gets into a dry well, but sees at the bottom of the well a dragon that has opened its jaws to swallow him. And the unfortunate man, not daring to climb out lest he should be destroyed by the enraged beast, and not daring to leap to the bottom of the well lest he should be eaten by the dragon, seizes s twig growing in a crack in the well and clings to it. His hands are growing weaker and he feels he will soon have to resign himself to the destruction that awaits him above or below, but still he clings on. Then he sees that two mice, a black one and a white one, go regularly round and round the stem of the twig to which he is clinging and gnaw at it. And soon the twig itself will snap and he will fall into the dragon’s jaws. The traveller sees this and knows that he will inevitably perish; but while still hanging he looks around, sees some drops of honey on the leaves of the twig, reaches them with his tongue and licks them.”

No, hate to admit I hadn’t heard that fable. Thanks for introducing me to it. The mice – Yin and Yang? And so we hang on…tasting the honey of Now…until the inevitable end. (Which I like to think might be a new beginning…)

I was thinking more of the time when the apparent universe (the one we’re aware of) collapses or implodes or whatever might happen…. And then a new big bang or….? Obviously all theoretical. I don’t really know what I’m talking about. 😀 Someday our sun will die and there’ll be no more earth… I like to think that humanity will come back in some other world…. In a galaxy far, far away…?
Guess I wandered from the fable’s meaning which was about the Now moment…tasting the honey of this present moment. Bliss eternal.

This “I” we currently inhabit is so wrapped up in time and space. Remember when you go to bring a dish out of the oven and the steam fogs up your glasses so badly you can’t see anything. Everything is still in place; you just can’t see it. Best wait for a moment or two until things are clear again. 🙂